{"id":21997,"date":"2017-12-21T11:17:59","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T16:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=21997"},"modified":"2017-12-21T11:17:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T16:17:59","slug":"the-postal-service-goes-all-in-for-busiest-week-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/12\/21\/the-postal-service-goes-all-in-for-busiest-week-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"The Postal Service goes all-in for busiest week of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/6abc.com\/video\/embed\/?pid=2805904\" width=\"476\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; Post office employees are in the middle of their busiest mailing week of the year, with many working overtime to help Santa get those packages delivered before the 25th.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re the first people to touch the mail,&#8221; said Sherisse Harris, USPS employee. &#8220;So we have to make sure the mail gets done in a fashionable time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Normally, the Postal Service&#8217;s Philadelphia plant processes an average of 405,000 letters and cards a day, but Monday and Tuesday of this week that average has skyrocketed to an estimated 2 million a day. Officials are anticipating that it will remain above average for the rest of the week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s literally crazy, everyone is working like 7 days a week, 12 hour shifts, just to make sure that we get basically serve our customers,&#8221; said Harris. Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/6abc.com\/business\/usps-goes-all-in-for-busiest-week-of-the-year\/2805811\/\">WPVI TV Philly<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21998\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/USPS-Philly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"489\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/USPS-Philly.jpg 489w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/USPS-Philly-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/USPS-Philly-123x70.jpg 123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) &#8212; Post office employees are in the middle of their busiest mailing week of the year, with many working overtime to help Santa get those packages delivered before the 25th. &#8220;We&#8217;re the first people to touch the mail,&#8221; said Sherisse Harris, USPS employee. &#8220;So we have to make sure the mail gets done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21999,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21997\/revisions\/21999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}